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The Sailor in the Wardrobe: A Memoir
[Buy it!] | Hugo Hamilton | USD 3.47
(Thu May 23 20:13:11 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | WorldofBooks | ISBN10: 0007192177, ISBN13: 9780007192175, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London] Softcover Following on from the success of 'The Speckled People', Hugo Hamilton's new memoir has at its heart the story of a summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust. Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused identity he has inherited from his German mother and Irish father, but the backdrop of his mother's shame at the hands of Allied soldiers in the aftermath of World War II, along with his German cousin's mysterious disappearance somewhere on the Irish West Coast and the spiralling troubles in the north, seems determined to trap him in history. In an attempt to break free of his past, Hugo rebels against his father's strict and crusading regime and turns to the exciting new world of rock and roll, still a taboo subject in the family home. His job at the local harbour, rather than offering a welcome respite from his speckled world, entangles him in a bitter feud between two fishermen -- one Catholic, one Protestant. Hugo listens to the missing persons bulletins going out on the radio for his German cousin, and watches the unfolding harbour duel end in drowning before he can finally escape the ropes of history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006] |
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US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972-73, Part 2 (Osprey Combat Aircraft, No. 30)
[Buy it!] | Brad Elward | USD 24.22
(Thu May 23 20:13:04 2024) | Abebooks | GoldenDragon | ISBN10: 1841762644, ISBN13: 9781841762647, [publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd.] Softcover Buy for Great customer experience
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002] |
